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- ICMC 1998 MUSIC REVIEWS
This was followed by "dinergy2", one of the most attractive pieces on the concert. It succeeeded in having audible 1st-hearing-friendly variety, while still maintaing the "textural" quality of its neighbors on this concert. It tasted rich, like a piece of lemon-cake. Especially soothing was the middle section, with its quasi-modal harmonies. This was contrasted with much rougher stuff elsewhere in the work.
ICMC Concert 4: Sat. Oct. 3, 3:00 pm
Reviewed by Christopher Bailey, Columbia University
Array Online
Spring 1999
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- International Computer Music Festival '98
Kobe, Japan 18-20 September , 1998,
The final piece constituted the second highlight of the festival: "dinergy2 for Sho and Live Computer" by Tamami Tono, composer and sho performer. In this impressive work the sho and the electronic sounds fuse to multiply the intrinsic beuty of the original sonic plumes. No cliches, no gratuitousness: at the beginning, a sho solo emanates its woody sound from the four speakers (the utilization of the spatial distribution of sounds was otherwise too rare in the festival), and pointillistic clouds and electronic fluctuations gradually enlarge the natural sound. The structure evolves slowly, according to a rhythm controlled by the breath of the performer, up until a contrasting passage of low, repetitive electronic sounds; then the acoustic waveforms resynthesize themselves around a long gong_like sound, against which the sho disintegrates into a noisy spectrum, followed by short implses. Incongruous sounds enter and give the sho an unexpected internal life, shaped according to surprising acoustic aspects. The flatly traditional manner of the ending takes away the originality of the piece somewhat, but all the same, it is clear that the composer_performer has a sensitive acoustic mastery over her instrument and the tecnplogocal means she uses in the work.....
Reviewed by Emmanuelle Loubet Osaka Japan
Computer Music Journal
Volume23 Number2 Summer 1999
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- International Computer Music Festival '98
September 18-20, 1998, Kobe, Japan
Where other works seemed to use the sho more for decoration, in this work the delicate and mysterious quality of the instruments blends successfully with various filterings of thick, harmonic textures. Certainly the finest Japanese work of the festival was "Dinergy 2 for Sho and Live Computer" by Tamami Tono. The work was also performed at the ICMC98. It is a lovely, meditative work that fully engages the listener. Perhaps because Ms. Tono is also a performer on traditional Japanese instruments herself, and because she has studied composition at Kunitachi College of Music (known for its computer music), her composition is one of the important computer-and-live-instrument works of this decade.
Reviewed by Jon Appleton, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
Array Online
Spring 1999
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- U.S.A./Japan Inter-College Computer Music Festival
Day 4, Tuesday 16 December, 1997.
Keio University, Mita Campus Tokyo.
Tamami Tono gave a wonderful performance of her piece "dinergy 2," for sho and live computer. Dinergy, meaning "growth over the limits" was an apt title for this piece. The composer played sho using circular breathing throughout, producing long tones straining beautifully against the electronic material. The electronic sounds complemented the sho and the overall effect was, as the composer hoped, to "fill the musical space with the rich ephemeral energy of life."
Reviewed by Harry Castle
Array Online
Spring 1998
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